Tails Quotes

• Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Storm, Sun

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “I Shall Wear Midnight: (Discworld Novel 38)”, p.92, Random House

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• In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Joy, Wags

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• If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Inspiration, Learning

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• Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

  Max Eastman

  Dog, Laughter, Laughing

  Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.34, Transaction Publishers

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• Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

  Heinrich Heine

  Laughter, People, Dull

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• The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sorry, Sparrows, Burden

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Life, Money

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  If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Peace, Elephants

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 22, 2014

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• Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Running, Wisdom

  The Sign Magazine, May 1938.

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

  Roger Caras

  Life, Dog, Sorry

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• A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Cat, Home, Feet

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.587, e-artnow

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  The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Blessing, Whales

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• He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Math, Track, Abel

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• Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in the now, to celebrate life by being completely present. You just watch the tail ... with some dogs you just look at them - just a little look is enough - and their tail goes ...'Life is good! Life is good!' And they are not telling themselves a story of why life is good. It's a direct realization.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dog, Good Life, Home

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• Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Peace, War, Adventure

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• I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

  Rita Rudner

  Dog, Witty, Religious

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• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

  Bernard Williams

  Happiness, Dog, Nature

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• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, War, Adventure

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Nature, Animal

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Animal, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.118, Crown Archetype

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